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EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS OF CANADA
margin, flesh thin except on the disk, white to pallid, odor alkaline, lamel-
lae ascending-adnate, moderately broad, uncrowded, white or tinged grayish,
with shorter lamellae interspersed, stipe 2-3)/^ in. long, up to J/g in. thick,
equal, hollow, brittle, subconcolorous with the pileus, at first with a pruinose
bloom, soon glabrous, usually somewhat white-mycelioid at the base, spores
smooth, white, amyloid, ovoid, 7.5-10 X 4.5-6/x. cystidia fusoid-ventricose
on the sides of the lamellae, up to 60 /x long, rare to abundant; those on the
edges of the lamellae varying from ventricose to clavate, sometimes with one to
several fingerlike projections at the apex.
In groups or in clusters of several on decaying conifers, common. May-
Sept.
This is one of the commonest species of the genus and is a fairly typical
Mycena. It may sometimes be found early in the spring. The characteristic
alkaline odor is the most distinctive single character of the species, but it may
vary from being quite strong to only detectable when the flesh is crushed or
even occasionally apparently absent.
MYCENA GALERICULATA (Fr.) S. F. Gray Edible
Figure 277, page 176 ^
PILEUS %-l )/2 in. broad, at first conic, becoming campanulate to ex-
panded-umbonate, the umbo sometimes disappearing, buff'-brown on the
margin, darker to umber on disk, fading, glabrous, somewhat sHppery, not
viscid, margin striate, flesh grayish white to pallid, cartilaginous, odor and
taste slightly farinaceous, lamellae adnexed to adnate or sinuate, close to
subdistant, moderately broad, whitish becoming tinged with pale pink, edges
even, stipe XVi-'^Vi in. long, sometimes longer, He^Vs
^^- thick, equal, gla-
brous, cartilaginous, smooth or twisted-striate, grayish white, darker below to
brownish at base, hollow, rooting, spores white, smooth, ellipsoid, amyloid,
8-10 X 5-7 M.
Usually in clusters or sometimes scattered, on rotten wood. May-Pet.
Although this is a small fragile species it sometimes occurs in such large
clusters that it may be of interest as food. Another common species that
occurs in clusters on wood is M. inclinata (Fr.) Quel. It is more grayish in
color, the margin is more or less scalloped, and the stipe has a white fibrillose
coating when young that usually leaveslftecks or fibrils on the stipe as the
fruiting body matures.
MYCENA LEAIANA (Berk.) Sacc.
Figures 218, 219, page 133
PILEUS 54-1 !4 in. broad, tough, pliant, convex, becoming expanded-
convex, with a slight depression on the disk, translucent-striate on the margin,
smooth and very viscid, bright flaming orange, fading to yellowish orange and
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